Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 273 286
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -82
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 505 554 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.13% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.22% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 214 295 471
10th Percentile £41,992 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,304 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -4.88% -5.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,577 45,271 66,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.42% 92.38% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,051 21,953 51,270
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 457 £75,000 +15.38% 125
London +61 259 £90,000 +12.50% 54
UK excluding London -75 190 £63,076 -2.96% 93
Work from Home +19 189 £75,000 +15.38% 97
South East -33 53 £57,500 -11.54% 34
North of England -15 52 £74,500 -3.87% 18
Midlands -34 37 £64,038 -1.48% 16
North West +2 31 £76,250 -1.61% 14
West Midlands -5 26 £60,288 -7.25% 11
East of England +32 22 £60,100 -7.54% 15
Yorkshire -26 18 £68,538 +5.44% 2
South West -39 14 £62,500 +0.30% 3
Northern Ireland -15 11 £75,000 +26.20%
East Midlands -31 10 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Wales -3 4 £61,001 +2.64% 1
North East -14 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2
Scotland -21 3 £42,000 -29.33% 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.56%) Confluence
2 12 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.59%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.97%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.47%) SaaS
2 56 (11.09%) AWS
3 47 (9.31%) Azure
4 24 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.76%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.97%) GitHub
8 14 (2.77%) GCP
9 10 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.78%) H2O.ai
10 9 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.78%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.78%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.78%) PaaS
11 6 (1.19%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.79%) Collibra
12 4 (0.79%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.59%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.15%) Broadband
2 10 (1.98%) HTTP
3 9 (1.78%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.39%) WAN
4 7 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.19%) LAN
5 6 (1.19%) RTP
5 6 (1.19%) Wireless
6 4 (0.79%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.59%) Multicast
8 2 (0.40%) 5G
8 2 (0.40%) ATM
8 2 (0.40%) VPN
9 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.20%) GPRS
9 1 (0.20%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) MPLS
9 1 (0.20%) NGN
9 1 (0.20%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.35%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.55%) Power BI
3 22 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.16%) RDBMS
5 16 (3.17%) Metadata
6 10 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.39%) Tableau
8 6 (1.19%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.19%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.59%) Big Data
11 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.40%) DB2
12 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 34 (6.73%) JIRA
2 19 (3.76%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.79%) ERwin
4 3 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 197 (39.01%) Finance
2 187 (37.03%) Social Skills
3 116 (22.97%) Marketing
4 101 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (10.50%) Banking
6 47 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (8.71%) Legal
7 44 (8.71%) Retail
8 39 (7.72%) Financial Institution
9 38 (7.52%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (5.74%) Law
11 27 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (4.95%) Public Sector
13 22 (4.36%) Digital Economy
14 20 (3.96%) Manufacturing
15 18 (3.56%) Back Office
16 17 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (2.77%) Electronics
18 11 (2.18%) Billing
19 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (28.51%) Product Manager
2 74 (14.65%) Lead
3 64 (12.67%) Senior
4 35 (6.93%) Senior Manager
5 31 (6.14%) Product Owner
6 26 (5.15%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.36%) Product Lead
8 20 (3.96%) Product Management Director
9 19 (3.76%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.17%) Change Manager
11 12 (2.38%) Data Manager
11 12 (2.38%) Developer
12 11 (2.18%) Development Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Security Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Senior Development Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (1.98%) Software Engineer
14 9 (1.78%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (2.77%) REST
3 9 (1.78%) Keras
3 9 (1.78%) PyTorch
3 9 (1.78%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.78%) YAML
4 6 (1.19%) .NET
5 4 (0.79%) Node.js
6 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.40%) EDI
7 2 (0.40%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.40%) Flask
7 2 (0.40%) Next.js
8 1 (0.20%) ADO
8 1 (0.20%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.20%) PySpark
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.20%) Spring
8 1 (0.20%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.42%) Product Ownership
2 50 (9.90%) Onboarding
3 42 (8.32%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.57%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.38%) Social Media
7 10 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.78%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.39%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.39%) IoT
10 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.36%) Linux
2 19 (3.76%) Unix
3 5 (0.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (52.28%) Roadmaps
2 210 (41.58%) Agile
3 148 (29.31%) Product Roadmap
4 115 (22.77%) Product Strategy
5 111 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 91 (18.02%) Mentoring
9 86 (17.03%) AI
10 77 (15.25%) Analytics
10 77 (15.25%) Information Security
11 74 (14.65%) User Experience
12 72 (14.26%) Product Vision
13 64 (12.67%) Coaching
13 64 (12.67%) Decision-Making
14 62 (12.28%) Project Management
15 59 (11.68%) Business Development
16 52 (10.30%) Value Proposition
17 50 (9.90%) DevOps
17 50 (9.90%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.90%) Python
2 34 (6.73%) Java
2 34 (6.73%) SQL
3 21 (4.16%) Go
3 21 (4.16%) JavaScript
4 19 (3.76%) Bash
5 9 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.99%) C#
7 2 (0.40%) COBOL
7 2 (0.40%) JCL
7 2 (0.40%) PHP
7 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.20%) C++
8 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.20%) R
8 1 (0.20%) Scala
8 1 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 98 (19.41%) Degree
2 43 (8.51%) Master's Degree
3 34 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (5.94%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.78%) MBA
8 8 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.39%) PMP
10 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.79%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CSPO
11 3 (0.59%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISM
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.35%) QA
2 16 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.98%) NCSC
5 10 (1.98%) NIST
6 6 (1.19%) GDPR
6 6 (1.19%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.99%) IFRS
7 5 (0.99%) SLA
8 4 (0.79%) PMO
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.59%) SEPA
10 2 (0.40%) COREP
10 2 (0.40%) FINREP
10 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) GRC
11 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (4.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.59%) vSphere
3 2 (0.40%) RACF
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.16%) Terraform
3 19 (3.76%) Ansible
3 19 (3.76%) Argo
3 19 (3.76%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 51 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.73%) Google
3 19 (3.76%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.38%) Databricks
5 9 (1.78%) Adobe
5 9 (1.78%) Dell
5 9 (1.78%) NVIDIA
5 9 (1.78%) SAP
6 8 (1.58%) Oracle
7 7 (1.39%) Foundry
8 6 (1.19%) Zoho
9 4 (0.79%) Sage
9 4 (0.79%) YouTube
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.59%) CQG
10 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.59%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.59%) Reuters
10 3 (0.59%) Trayport